Presidents Ranked By Economic Management

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I created an algorithm for MS Excel that ranks economic management. They are awarded or lose points based on these factors:

• Notable depression, recession or panic begins or continues to the end of their term.
• Notable depression, recession, or panic is resolved/ends during their term. 
• Notable economic boom begins or continues to the end of their term. 
• Notable economic boom ends during their term
• President has a better debt change % than recent predecessors as they left office
• President reduced the debt as they left office
• Debt was increased by 100%
• Inflation % was better than recent predecessors
• Inflation was in the negatives (i.e. had deflation) as they left office
• Inflation hit double digits during presidency
• Then I have one category that is not data based, which awards a slightly bonus to three historically great/bad events. These events are the creation of the US economic system (Washington), the Great Depression (Hoover and FDR), Clinton Surplus (only because a surplus for a modern president is unheard of) and this isn't captured in the debt category since he technically increased the national debt.

Here are the presidents ranked in economic management:

1. Calvin Coolidge
2. Franklin Pierce
3. James Madison
4. John Adams
5. Barack Obama
6. James Monroe
7. Rutherford B Hayes
8. Warren G Harding
9. Bill Clinton
10. Ronald Reagan
11. Grover Cleveland (1st term)
12. George Washington
13. James A Garfield  ***Probably shouldn't count***
14. Franklin D Roosevelt
15. Andrew Johnson
16. Millard Fillmore
17. Theodore Roosevelt
18. James K Polk
19. William Henry Harrison ***Probably shouldn't count***
20. Dwight D Eisenhower
21. John Quincy Adams
22. Lyndon B Johnson
23. John Tyler
24. William McKinley
25. Gerald Ford
26. Andrew Jackson
27. Zachary Taylor
28. Ulysses S Grant
29. William H Taft
30. John F Kennedy
31. Chester A Arthur
32. Harry S Truman
33. Jimmy Carter
34. Benjamin Harrison
35. Joe Biden ***probably shouldn't count***
36. Martin Van Buren
37. Thomas Jefferson
38. Abraham Lincoln
39. Donald Trump
40. Grover Cleveland (2nd term)
41. Woodrow Wilson
42. Herbert Hoover
43. James Buchanan
44. George HW Bush
45. George W Bush
46. Richard Nixon

One flaw in this algorithm is that earlier presidents are at a huge advantage because the government is smaller, debt and deficit more manageable. Also I'm weighing each category about equally. Lastly, my algorithm doesn't capture the affect of a previous president's policies on the economy inherited by the successor or successors. Therefore, there may be some adjustments.